Blog Assignment #4

Culture shock seems to be the major challenge for foreign students they go through when studying abroad. From the excerpt, “Two Years in the Melting Pot”, a Chinese journalist, Liu Zonguen is one of the students who face this challenge in which he moved from China to U.S. to learn, speak and write better in English. Under his challenge of cultural shock, he had a hard time being around with his American hosts, the McKnights, and American students. He misses the environment and culture he is use to. He met other Chinese people in which he was more comfortable being with than Americans. This had made him even closer to home, but this contradicts his goal of pursuing his interests for English since he tried to speak only in English while staying in the U.S. As a writer and a Filipino for this excerpt, I had the same experience than Mr. Zonguen, because it makes me go even closer to my homeland being with the same people. For the most part about cultural shock from foreigners, even they are talking to strangers but with the same culture, then would still fell the comfort and confidence of being away from their hometown no matter what. They both benefit from each other and could easily interact with one another.